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The content of the Work is aimed at the topical issue - integration of increasing infeed of wind power into a power system, in particular its impact on the transmission networks and electricity market. In power system development horizons where forward-looking planning tasks are formed, proper instruments that are able to assess those impacts in progressive stages, comprehensive understanding of the impacts on the entire system operation, electricity markets as well as generating and transmission infrastructural requirements are indispensable for proper decisions of policy makers and planners. The main part therefore focuses on methods and elaboration of approaches for bulk wind power production modelling and simulation primarily intended for infrastructural planning purposes, while technical/economic as well as regulatory aspects of the environment are taken into consideration. The research is carried out within the framework of the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA), Joint Research Programme on Smart Grids, Transmission Planning with the main target focusing on R&D of the next generation of smart grid technologies and system development.

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Ing. Mario Turcik, PhD. is working as Specialist of Division of Trade at SEPS [The Slovak TSO].Dr.sc.ing assoc.prof. Irina Oleinikova is Leading Researcher at Institute of Physical Energetics in Riga, Latvia.Dr.h.c. prof. Ing. Michal Kolcun, PhD. is Head of Electric Power Engineering Department at Technical University of Kosice.

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